 | Virginia - 1803 - 548 pągines
...or attempt to perpetrate any arfon, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed tnurder of the firfl degree ; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the Jurj to "'""*/ '!** fecond degree, and the jury before whom any pirfun. indicted for murder shall ft*.1*"... | |
 | William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 pągines
...be committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree ; and all...murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree ; (b) and the jury before whom any person indicted for murder shall be tried shall, if they find such... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1824 - 594 pągines
...perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder in the first degree ; and all other kinds of murder, shall be deemed murder in the second degree.' In the last mode of killing, enumerated in this law, viz. where a man kills... | |
 | Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough - 1826 - 722 pągines
...shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, &c. shall henceforth be deemed murder in the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree." It is admitted that if this enactment stopped here, and was taken unconnected... | |
 | 1843 - 516 pągines
...to perpetrate arson, rape, sodomy, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree ; all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree ; and the jury shall determine whether the offence be murder of the first or of the second degree. The punishment... | |
 | 1834 - 478 pągines
...shall determine, in a prosecution for murder; whether the crime be of the first or second degree — "The Jury before whom any person indicted for murder shall be tried, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, ascertain in their verdict whether it be murder of the first or second... | |
 | Edward Livingston - 1833 - 768 pągines
...which shall be committed in the perpetration of certain enumerated crimes, "shall be deemed murder in the first degree, and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree." Here all murder by premeditated killing forms one degree; but premeditation... | |
 | Edward Livingston - 1833 - 766 pągines
...which shall he committed in the perpetration of certain enumerated crimes, "shall be deemed murder in the first degree, and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree." Here all murder by premeditated killing forms one. degree; but premeditation... | |
 | 1835 - 510 pągines
...shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree, and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of'the second degree.' And this is the usual distinction, although slightly varied in different states;... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Isaac Wharton - 1836 - 580 pągines
...perpetrate any arson, rape, or burglary," upon the same footing. And the act expressly provides, that the jury before whom, any person indicted for murder shall be tried^ shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, ascertain in their verdict whether it be murder in the first or second... | |
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... or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree, and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree... 
